And knowing open source also means that you know how to fix it when it breaks.
If Microsoft software breaks all you can do is pray and hope that it will be resolved in a future bug fix. A call to M$ support renders you a long wait on the phone where you can't do anything and finally a question if you have tried to reinstall, and if you have done it and have any kind of custom software in the vicinity then they can't help you.
So either you are putting in some hours to get in control or you give up control to Microsoft.
The problem is that even though a young person with skills for a specific tool is wanted an old person is there too with experience in methods that are useful regardless of which tool that is used.
I think that relevancy depends on WHAT you search for, and which terms you use.
But from my experience - even though I get a bit more garbage on Google I also think that the chance to find an offbeat gem is better there than at Bing. The few times I have used Bing have been disappointing and only ended up into a direction to a major site or a manufacturer while I really wanted something else.
This is certainly true if you measure productivity in value of output per unit of time worked. OTOH, if you have exempt employees, your labor costs don't scale with hours worked, and you may, within a certain range, get more output per unit of labor cost by expanding hours past the point where that would be beneficial in a system of hourly wages.
On the third(?!) hand, there is going to be a point at which that becomes counterproductive, even in the short-term, and in the long-term it probably isn't good for morale and retention.
Tired workers makes more mistakes which will cost more in the end.
Nethack - even through it's considered obscure and lacks a user friendly interface is very much like life.
Remember kids - Reality has no second life. What is done is done. And experience is gained. It's only when you are old you know how you should have done things.
Or get a competitive plan with the operator that makes the mobile phones run the same cost as a fixed line.
Many organizations in Sweden has dropped the fixed lines and has switched over to mobile phones completely.
Also be aware that if a person is easier to reach the organization may be much more efficient. There is a price to pay for unanswered calls too, but it's not as easy to see.
Another factor may be that they have experienced that too many users are now using data communication - at least in some areas and that means that too many persons are sharing the same bandwidth which results in an overall bad experience for all users. So this is a way for them to provide a good experience for most of the users.
And providing more bandwidth is expensive - so maybe they will come with an offer that allows users to pay more for more data. Especially business users are willing to pay for that.
In which case Microsoft should pay for all those excess costs that the users have caught. Especially important at international roaming - where you can pay $30 or more per megabyte.
It's worth considering that the amount of greenhouse gases by cattle may not be the problem that it's said to be. A lot of greenhouse gases are emitted by lakes and a lot of other sources too.
Add to this the fact that it would be a lot worse if the temperature did turn down instead of up. Starvation and war may be the result when the polar grows or there are years where the temperature limits the crops severely.
Think what would happen if all corn suddenly froze in the US several years in a row. Or that the yield dropped on other base food with 30%. Would make what happened in New Orleans during/after Katrina a breeze.
If you have a lower margin per phone but sell a lot more you will overwhelm the market with your product so the profit is in money counted maybe even lower but when it comes to market share you can kick out the other player into being a fringe player.
And when consumers discovers that there are devices that can do more than what their iPhone does - and maybe even better - then they will move. People changes phones almost at the same rate as they change their underwear.
And the servers are often placed in locations sensitive to flooding too. Office near a major river where the computer hall is actually below the water surface. Only takes a drainage failure or riverbed overflow to take out the center.
But it's cheap... As long as the servers aren't submerged.
I think that forums do provide useful input, but it has to be filtered. If people do have opinions about certain items it means that they can be changed for the next major release, but maybe not at all in the way that what's said on the forum.
And see it the other way - if you have a forum and there aren't any opinions at all about what you have made that may mean that nobody really uses what you have done.
And that is what DHS and other agencies around the world are working on right now - including the EU as per requests from the US government.
You will leave a lot of traces - so the alternative would probably be to leave too many traces to follow. Drown the real intent in an avalanche of lolcats and other things.
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And knowing open source also means that you know how to fix it when it breaks.
If Microsoft software breaks all you can do is pray and hope that it will be resolved in a future bug fix. A call to M$ support renders you a long wait on the phone where you can't do anything and finally a question if you have tried to reinstall, and if you have done it and have any kind of custom software in the vicinity then they can't help you.
So either you are putting in some hours to get in control or you give up control to Microsoft.
The problem is that even though a young person with skills for a specific tool is wanted an old person is there too with experience in methods that are useful regardless of which tool that is used.
Just look at your own code from a decade ago...
To me Armdroid is a robot arm, as described here: http://www.megadroid.com/Arms/armdroid_1.htm and here: http://www.theoldrobots.com/clone.html and was created some time back in 1981.
But knowing that makes me feel old.
Only problem I see is if the driver behind you doesn't pay attention when you leave the train and you get a shadow following you home.
And if the employer can't provide tools for the employees to be reasonably efficient then it's time to look for a new employer.
The money saved on not upgrading equipment/software is soon lost on wasted time.
More out of curiosity.
I agree that this was a really good job done!
I will have to look into that because there are many applications around that would benefit from such a solution.
I think that relevancy depends on WHAT you search for, and which terms you use.
But from my experience - even though I get a bit more garbage on Google I also think that the chance to find an offbeat gem is better there than at Bing. The few times I have used Bing have been disappointing and only ended up into a direction to a major site or a manufacturer while I really wanted something else.
This is certainly true if you measure productivity in value of output per unit of time worked. OTOH, if you have exempt employees, your labor costs don't scale with hours worked, and you may, within a certain range, get more output per unit of labor cost by expanding hours past the point where that would be beneficial in a system of hourly wages.
On the third(?!) hand, there is going to be a point at which that becomes counterproductive, even in the short-term, and in the long-term it probably isn't good for morale and retention.
Tired workers makes more mistakes which will cost more in the end.
Nethack - even through it's considered obscure and lacks a user friendly interface is very much like life.
Remember kids - Reality has no second life. What is done is done. And experience is gained. It's only when you are old you know how you should have done things.
Or get a competitive plan with the operator that makes the mobile phones run the same cost as a fixed line.
Many organizations in Sweden has dropped the fixed lines and has switched over to mobile phones completely.
Also be aware that if a person is easier to reach the organization may be much more efficient. There is a price to pay for unanswered calls too, but it's not as easy to see.
We have implemented a filter. If someone goes around it - too bad, but we have done what we can.
It's nothing new, channels for illegal and immoral information will find new ways all the time. It's like trying to block wasps entering a beehive.
1. I stated should.
2. The EULA isn't valid everywhere.
Another question is - will the subscription be locked to the platform used or can the SIM-card be moved to another device?
Or are Verizon not using SIM cards to make sure that they are in full control?
Another factor may be that they have experienced that too many users are now using data communication - at least in some areas and that means that too many persons are sharing the same bandwidth which results in an overall bad experience for all users. So this is a way for them to provide a good experience for most of the users.
And providing more bandwidth is expensive - so maybe they will come with an offer that allows users to pay more for more data. Especially business users are willing to pay for that.
In which case Microsoft should pay for all those excess costs that the users have caught. Especially important at international roaming - where you can pay $30 or more per megabyte.
What's the difference?
Both should leave the gene pool.
It's worth considering that the amount of greenhouse gases by cattle may not be the problem that it's said to be. A lot of greenhouse gases are emitted by lakes and a lot of other sources too.
Add to this the fact that it would be a lot worse if the temperature did turn down instead of up. Starvation and war may be the result when the polar grows or there are years where the temperature limits the crops severely.
Think what would happen if all corn suddenly froze in the US several years in a row. Or that the yield dropped on other base food with 30%. Would make what happened in New Orleans during/after Katrina a breeze.
If you have a lower margin per phone but sell a lot more you will overwhelm the market with your product so the profit is in money counted maybe even lower but when it comes to market share you can kick out the other player into being a fringe player.
And when consumers discovers that there are devices that can do more than what their iPhone does - and maybe even better - then they will move. People changes phones almost at the same rate as they change their underwear.
No surprise there - I did already do that back in '02 on a Nokia. I had to move the SIM card to a SonyEricsson phone to delete the offending SMS.
So it's possible, but the message may have to be specific for the phone/model.
No - but I usually get a VAT/customs invoice when fetching the delivery at the postal delivery point.
And there will still be jobs, but not at the retailers - it's instead at the delivery companies.
However - tax on overseas is already what is applied to products entering Europe. VAT and customs fee is added by the customs office.
Looks familiar.
And the servers are often placed in locations sensitive to flooding too. Office near a major river where the computer hall is actually below the water surface. Only takes a drainage failure or riverbed overflow to take out the center.
But it's cheap... As long as the servers aren't submerged.
I think that forums do provide useful input, but it has to be filtered. If people do have opinions about certain items it means that they can be changed for the next major release, but maybe not at all in the way that what's said on the forum.
And see it the other way - if you have a forum and there aren't any opinions at all about what you have made that may mean that nobody really uses what you have done.
And that is what DHS and other agencies around the world are working on right now - including the EU as per requests from the US government.
You will leave a lot of traces - so the alternative would probably be to leave too many traces to follow. Drown the real intent in an avalanche of lolcats and other things.